Wolferetti: A recap of UNC’s no-good, very bad weekend

Sure, this is an NC State site, and we like to keep things positive. So we were positive in our decision to rehash with our readers, the awful weekend that UNC just had. And yeah it’s Tuesday and I should have written this Monday, but I was busy, so you get it today. Let’s get to it.

First off, you had NC State capping of the football season with a win over UNC, at Carolina. To make matters worse, NC State was starting their 4th string QB (Ben Finley) who just so happened to outperform their Heisman-hopeful freshman.

And the way they lost was brutal. A missed chip shot in overtime, which was one of two missed FGs on the night for Noah Burnette. Here, watch…

Ouch. And Finley didn’t just outperform Maye, he also dug at him in the meeting with the media.

NC State quarterback Ben Finley gets a little dig on UNC quarterback Drake Maye, letting him know he is excited about getting his degree from NCSU in December: pic.twitter.com/TVnsdCJAXS

— TheWolfpackCentral (@NCStateRivals) November 26, 2022

And then there was Dave Doeren who didn’t mince words when he said this…

Doeren, paraphrased during the broadcast:

“They don’t like us. We hate them. We’re blue collar, they’re elitist. Their coaches talk down to us, they talk behind our backs in recruiting, and negatively about our coaching staff.”

Well then. https://t.co/3PGco9BNhl

— Andrew Carter (@_andrewcarter) November 25, 2022

According to the broadcasts, after saying this to the reporters, they asked if it was on the record and Doeren said “I don’t give a &*$#”.

Later that night, UNC, the #1 ranked team in college basketball also had a pretty bad showing, losing to Iowa State by 5…

And then turning around the next day, and losing to Alabama by 2 in overtime.

This led UNC to see the biggest single-week drop (from #1 to #8) by a #1 team in the AP Poll era.

North Carolina’s drop from No. 1 to No. 18 in this week’s AP poll is the biggest single-week drop for a No. 1 team in the AP poll era, per @ESPNStatsInfo.

— Jeff Borzello (@jeffborzello) November 28, 2022

So to recap. Their Drake Maye Heisman dreams were crushed, they lost to rival NC State, they were the but of a joke by a 4th string QB, they rival coach called them elitist, and their basketball fans realized despite returning almost all of their talent from a team that made it to the National Championship, they still aren’t #1. Oh, and with another loss, they fell the furthest of any #1 in the history of the AP.

That’s a pretty sucky weekend for UNC. But me, personally, I’m here for it.